Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt

Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt (13 July 1887-9 May 1943) was a General der Infanterie of the German Wehrmacht during World War II.

Biography
Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt was born in Perleberg, German Empire in 1887 to a family of Danish-Holsteiner nobility, and he entered the Imperial German Army in 1907. Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt fought in World War I, and he remained in the Reichswehr during the Interwar period. During World War II, Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt rose from commanding the German 23rd Infantry Division to commanding the XXVIII Armeekorps and the II Armeekorps. In November 1942, he fell ill, and he died in a Berlin hospital in May 1943.